2 Tips To Getting Paid 1) Fake Account Departments Set-up a fake email john@company.com and send a mail to the client reminding about payment from that account. This protects your relationship with the client. When the project kicks off you can even automate those mails, 10, 5 and 1 day before payment is due.

2 Tips To Getting Paid 1) Fake Account Departments Set-up a fake email john@company.com and send a mail to the client reminding about payment from that account. This protects your relationship with the client. When the project kicks off you can even automate those mails, 10, 5 and 1 day before payment is due.

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Yeah, don't take me wrong I love you guys, but that just doesn't sound professional, and I'm just a single sole trader, think about when a large company accountant reads that stuff. Deception should never be an answer even if they don't pay you in time. You should be more professional than that. Check this out some useful stuff: http://articles.bplans.com/15-tips-dealing-client-wont-pay/

The idea in that article is that rather than the email coming from farkas@denesgergo.com, the email comes from finance@denesgergo.com - this means the reminder "does come from your personally", and when you next call the client, you can always say someone in the office sent that reminder out